Victoria, TX 77968 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Victoria, TX, ZIP 77968
Around 02/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 160 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/09, about 309 frost-free days later.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Victoria, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Victoria has about 15 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Victoria's last frost
02/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Victoria compares
Victoria's growing season runs about 309 days, ranking 3,632 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 281 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Victoria's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Victoria can differ from the 77968 normal.